Archive for March, 2011

  • Oil Prices- Is the Worst Still Yet to Come?
    Posted by on March 31st, 2011 at 9:17 pm, Comments: 0

    As I filled up my nearly empty gas tank this evening, the virtually daily increase in the price of gasoline finally bit me. I drive [...]

  • Mosaic Intra-day Trading Recap
    Posted by on March 31st, 2011 at 3:02 pm, Comments: 0

    Mosaic ($MOS) and the agriculture complex as a whole offered tremendous trading opportunities over the past 24 hours but also a bit of information overload as well.

  • The Relevance of Volume in Markets
    Posted by on March 31st, 2011 at 9:39 am, Comments: 0

    Low volume isn’t necessarily a bad thing although we will need to eventually see volume come into the market to make new highs for the year on the S&P 500.

  • To QE3 or Not To QE3?
    Posted by on March 29th, 2011 at 6:24 pm, Comments: 0

    Without boring my readers too much (feel free to skip to the end if monetary policy bores you and would like to get to the [...]

  • If You Think Trading is Exciting Then You’re Doing it Wrong
    Posted by on March 28th, 2011 at 12:17 pm, Comments: 0

    During the past few weeks I have noticed many traders attempting to engage the market on a daily basis, most, if not all, have been [...]

  • The Great Silver Bull and the Curious Case of PSLV
    Posted by on March 24th, 2011 at 11:59 am, Comments: 0

    I guess you can say that I’ve been a precious metals bull for virtually my entire life. When I was nine I began receiving silver [...]

  • Meeting James Altucher and Some Observations on the Recent Market Turmoil
    Posted by on March 21st, 2011 at 2:08 pm, Comments: 0

    We have recently been hit by an avalanche of negative news that has thoroughly tested the mettle of this 2-year old bull market. Now that [...]

  • The Market has Bounced- Now it Must Prove Itself
    Posted by on March 18th, 2011 at 1:05 pm, Comments: 0

    Stocks were deeply oversold at Wednesday’s close and almost any good news was likely to result in a snapback rally. Snapback rallies from deeply oversold [...]

  • $TAN vs. $XLU: When the Fundamentals Change Overnight
    Posted by on March 17th, 2011 at 1:05 pm, Comments: 0

    The day before the earthquake in Japan two sectors of the market were clearly moving in opposite directions: The utility sector (XLU) was experiencing a [...]

  • Caution!
    Posted by on March 16th, 2011 at 2:36 pm, Comments: 0

      The Caution sign above sums up my thoughts on the markets right now. I remember Jim Cramer famously used caution signs (even attaching one [...]